At Home in Thrush Green (Thrush Green Series #8) - Softcover

Shows the little village facing the consequences of a fire that destroyed the rectory, making room for a retirement community and a group of new residents through the eyes of Charles Henstock, who remembers with nostalgia his old home in the now destroyed rectory. Reprint.

Miss Read is the pseudonym of Mrs. Dora Saint, a former schoolteacher beloved for her novels of English rural life, especially those set in the fictional villages of Thrush Green and Fairacre. The first of these, Village School, was published in 1955, and Miss Read continued to write until her retirement in 1996. In the 1998, she was awarded an MBE, or Member of the Order of the British Empire, for her services to literature. She lives in Berkshire.